Famous Brands Are Exposed To Toxic &Nbsp; Consumers Become "Accomplices" Of Environmental Pollution.

ADI Nike Lining was exposed to poison

Pollution chain of famous brands

How did consumers become "accomplices" in the pollution chain of well-known brands? Li Yifang, director of the Greenpeace pollution prevention and control project, said that these toxic and harmful substances in clothing were called nonylphenol polyoxyethylene (NPE). They were used for clothing manufacturing and were discharged into rivers of clothing producing countries, which caused pollution to the environment of the country.

Li Yifang: in 2010, we tested the wild fish in the Changjiang River, that is, the fish we usually eat, and found that the same environmental hormone is also in the fish body.

Therefore, this clearly shows the chain of toxic and harmful substances.

It is not only in the food we usually eat, in the rivers around us, in the clothes we wear, and in the production process, but also in the rivers of the production area.

In the latest report, the researchers include Adidas, Nike, Lining, Puma,

Li Yifang: the new report we released this time is simulating the process of washing clothes at home. It is found that after washing clothes, these poisonous and harmful substances will be drained into the rivers beside us with the washing water.

Consumers become "accomplices" of environmental pollution

Zhang Kai, director of the Greenpeace pollution and control project, said that the toxic and harmful substances NPE discharged into rivers, lakes and oceans will pform into a more toxic chemical substance that interferes with the endocrine system NP (Ren Jifen).

NP is the world's recognized environmental hormone.

Research shows that even if the concentration of this substance is low, it is also very dangerous.

Zhang Kai: it is persistent and bioaccumulative.

That is to say, once it is discharged into the environment, it will exist in the environment for a long time, and it can enter the food chain and gradually enlarge through the food chain.

At the same time, it also has the function of mimicking estrogen, so once it enters the organism, it will affect the normal reproduction and development of the organism, and can lead to the reduction of the sperm count of human beings.

Li Yifang said that research has proved that NPE residues in textiles can be cleaned, most of which can be completely removed only a few times.

However, these well-known clothing brands indirectly discharge toxic and harmful substances to public water, which makes consumers unwitting, becoming "accomplices" of environmental pollution.

Li Yifang: what we want to prove this time is that through consumers, they did not know that they bought the clothes of these brands and washed them very normally at home. In the process, we became "accomplices" causing pollution.

We pferred these environmental hormones that were originally discharged from the factory's sewage outlets. These poisonous and harmful substances were pferred to the rivers around us.